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Chatfield Senior head coach Brock Blume said he’s been looking for Daniel Froning’s game to come around all season. The expectations are there for the senior midfielder to score time and again.
On Oct. 24, in the first round of the 5A boys soccer state playoffs, Froning did that early and often.

Governor’s Ranch Elementary School was locked down on the afternoon of Oct. 30 after a student reported seeing a suspicious person on campus.

The student described seeing either a middle-school- or high-school-age male in jeans and a black trenchcoat carrying a backpack around campus, said Mark Techmeyer, spokesman for the Jeffco Sheriff’s Office.

Jeffco and its municipalities are starting to consolidate emergency dispatch services in the county into one centralized call center.

A recent study done for the Jefferson County Emergency Communications Authority recommended consolidating the 10 primary and secondary call centers in Jeffco into one main call center and several regional dispatch centers.

The Jeffco school board approved a $1.2 million contract to upgrade the school district’s data storage technology at the board’s study session Oct. 24.

The $1.2 million will upgrade digital storage hardware and software through the technology company EMC. District staff members said Oct. 3 that the technology upgrade is unrelated to the inBloom system for storing student data or its classroom dashboard.

The scam artist first targeted Jeffco residents starting Sept. 2 and 3. Throughout September, the Jeffco Sheriff’s Office received more than 10 reports from citizens who received calls from a man pretending to be a major with the department. The man introduced himself as “Maj. Tom Wilson” and told the victims they had missed jury duty and were going to be arrested.

Here we go again! There are three seats up for grabs on the Jefferson County Board of Education, and as was the case two years ago when the other two seats on the board were filled, no incumbents are running for re-election. And as also was the case the last time we elected school board members in Jefferson County, there are stark differences between the candidates.